Reps. Loudermilk and Johnson announce release of 5,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage following arrest of Blaze Media's Steve Baker



House Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Friday the release of 5,000 hours of CCTV footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, protests. This release coincides with Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker's FBI-compelled surrender in Dallas over his Jan. 6 reporting.

According to the Republican congressmen, this release is but a trickle compared to the coming flood, as far more footage will be released in the coming weeks and months. Additionally, at the direction of Johnson, faces will not be blurred in the footage in the interest of "getting this work completed as responsibly and efficiently as possible."

Already, the footage Loudermilk made available to Steve Baker has served to greatly undermine the Jan. 6 narrative advanced by Democratic lawmakers and their allies in the media.

Weeks after uncovering various damning irregularities in the story told by and about U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, Baker confirmed in January — on the basis of Jan. 6 footage — that the so-called passerby who discovered the pipe bomb at the DNC happened to be a United States Capitol Police plainclothes officer.

In his continued deep dive, Baker also found troubling indications that something was off about the pipe bomb investigation from the outset.

On the basis of closed-circuit TV video footage made available to him by Loudermilk, Baker noted how three cameras controlled by the U.S. Capitol Police and customarily pointed at the DNC office building were strangely turned away from the scene just after the discovery of the alleged explosive device. Despite the cameras' averted gazes, Baker nevertheless highlighted curious details about various law enforcement agencies' responses to the discovery of the pipe bombs as well as about the investigation that followed.

The release of additional vantages on the Jan. 6 protests and the incidents in the surrounding area may serve to lend additional insights into what actually took place on that fateful day.

Videos have been uploaded and now appear on the House Subcommittee on Oversight's Rumble page. Subsequent releases will similarly be reviewed to ensure that footage does not contain sensitive security information.

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"House Republicans again commend Chairman Loudermilk and the entire Committee on House Administration for their ongoing commitment to ensuring that there is full transparency surrounding the events of January 6," Johnson said in a statement obtained by Blaze News.

Last year, Johnson indicated he would release 44,000 hours of footage from the Jan. 6 protests, noting that doing so would "provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials."

In his statement Friday, Johnson stressed that the "ongoing work is especially necessary considering the deeply flawed prior investigation conducted by the partisan January 6 select committee, which instead of delivering transparency, has contributed to defendants, public interest groups, and the media having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials."

"My subcommittee's investigation has always been about providing the American people with full transparency and complete accountability about what really happened on January 6, 2021," said Rep. Loudermilk. "As such, we have been working tirelessly to make public all U.S. Capitol Police CCTV footage from that day."

Loudermilk lauded Johnson for his continued support of the subcommittee's efforts and for his "resolute commitment to full transparency for the American people."

"Today's decision will significantly expedite CCTV footage releases, all of which will be made available to the American public within the next few months, without blurring or editing," added the Georgia congressman.

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Florida rapper riddles her manager with bullets following beating, gets run over in newly released security footage



Aspiring rapper Kevhani Camilla Hicks has been charged with second-degree murder over the fatal shooting of her manager last month in Miami. Hicks, the apparent CEO of Pretty Thug Music and whose stage name is Key Vhani, told officers she gunned her manager down in self-defense — a claim the Miami-Dade judge presiding over her case has indicated might have some merit.

Security footage obtained by WTVJ-TV shows Hicks, 27, exit a white Lexus sedan outside Wynwood Walls on Oct. 9, then amble toward the rear of the vehicle. The male driver of the vehicle meets Hicks behind the vehicle, where they appear to argue. Words quickly give way to haymakers.

As the two fight in the street, a second man, identified by the Miami Herald as Hicks' manager, exits the Lexus and joins the driver in pinning the rapper against the asphalt. After reportedly administering a beating, the manager can be seen slamming the rapper against the pavement.

Following the scuffle, Hicks begins to walk away while the men return to the car. The peace is short-lived, however; Hicks reaches into her purse, produces a handgun, and storms back toward the Lexus, opening fire. Hicks strikes her manager multiple times despite his desperate attempt to take cover behind a parked vehicle. Hicks' final volley leaves the decedent flat in the street.

The driver who first attacked Hicks manages to pull away in the Lexus, running over the rapper in the process.

Hicks and her manager were both taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center. The rapper was treated for non-life-threatening blunt-force injuries, and her manager died on account of all his bullet wounds.

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Hicks told officers that while the driver ultimately pulled her manager back, the sense that he posed an imminent threat to her persisted.

The arrest report indicated, "As the defendant began to walk away from the victim, the victim began yelling threats at her and his voice grew closer. The defendant stated she was in fear due to the victim's size and upon hearing the victim yell 'I'll kill you with one hit,'" reported WTVJ.

The prosecution cast doubt on whether the shooting qualified as self-defense, since the decedent allegedly had his back toward her when she opened fire and she allegedly had an opportunity to walk away.

Hicks was initially jailed, and Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer denied her bond, stating last month, "I believe she does have a very good self-defense claim, but that claim is a defense of the charge; it doesn't negate the finding that there is [probable] cause for second-degree murder, the victim was walking away and she shot him after he was beating on her."

Glazer recently granted Hicks a $50,000 bond and house arrest. Hicks' next hearing is reportedly scheduled for Feb. 15.

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Suspect tries to flee Phoenix police by leaping rooftop to rooftop. When that fails, he tries to outrun a K-9 unit.



A suspect took a police chase to the rooftops of Phoenix Tuesday evening. Despite some bold moves, he was ultimately brought down by gravity and a particularly eager K-9 unit.

Police indicated in a statement obtained by KSAZ-TV that Jamie Chavira's downfall Tuesday began when he allegedly failed to stop his vehicle for police in the area of 38th Avenue and Mobile Lane.

"The vehicle failed to yield to a traffic stop and felony flight was established," said the statement. "Officers did not initiate a pursuit of the vehicle. Rather, it was tracked to the area of 35th Avenue and Roeser Street."

Chavira, 19, was reportedly seen in the area jumping into the back yard of several homes as well as climbing onto a number of rooftops.

Christelle Kouam Chuene was at home with her three sleeping children when she heard the commotion.

Chuene told KSAZ, "When I looked out my window, I saw somebody jumping house to house. ... I saw him jumping from one house to the other one. It was so crazy. It was really cray and scary."

"I just saw the guy jumping like a monkey," she added. "He seems like he knew what he was doing."

Evidently, Chavira didn't know how to do it successfully.

The final moments of the chase were captured by Chuene's Ring doorbell camera.

The footage shows the shirtless suspect illuminated by a helicopter's search light atop the roof of a West Phoenix home near 35th Avenue and Roeser Road. Several officers can be seen closing in below with nonlethal weapons at the ready.

Undaunted by what appears to be a gap at least 10 feet wide, Chavira leaps toward the neighboring roof. Lacking the luck and grace necessary to traverse the divide, he lands between the houses.

Though grounded, Chavira is not yet willing to surrender. Instead, he pushes aside the blue bin that helped break his fall and makes a mad dash past police, through a hail of nonlethal rounds, and across the driveway of the neighboring house. Again, he is thwarted by his own ineptitude.

This time, he loses his footing, stumbles, then finds himself fighting the jaws of the law.

A K-9 unit got its teeth into what appears to be his hand. It thrashes its fleshy ransom until police officers are able to make the arrest.

K9 TAKEDOWN:\nPhoenix Police deployed a K9 on a suspect attempting to flee on foot after falling off a roof while jumping between houses last night.\n\n#News #Phoenix #Police #PoliceK9 #CaughtOnCamera
— Jack | OnSceneTV Phoenix (@Jack | OnSceneTV Phoenix) 1697595203

According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Chavira was charged with two counts of transportation violations and at least one count of criminal trespass and burglary. KSAZ indicated he has also been charged with resisting arrest.

Following his arrest, he was taken to a hospital to be treated for a dog bite, according to police.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

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Surveillance footage shows ASU staff member attack a Turning Point USA cameraman. The university appears keen to paint employee as a victim.



A Turning Point USA reporter attempted to put questions concerning sexual education and child-facing drag shows to an LGBT activist who works at Arizona State University on Oct. 11. Once again, the attempted exercise of free speech by conservatives at the taxpayer-funded university did not go unchallenged.

Security footage appears to show writing instructor and Drag Story Hour Arizona co-founder David Boyles violently lash out at a TPUSA cameraman. "Frontlines" reporter Kalen D’Almeida can be seen subsequently intervening to protect his cameraman, landing Boyles on the ground.

ASU president Michael Crow and certain liberal media outfits have since fixated on the reporter's intervention but not the attack that prompted it.

Despite the seemingly defensive nature of the reporter's engagement, the ASU Police Department has confirmed it is investigating whether the incident is a hate crime and looking into possibly pressing aggravated assault charges.

A spokesman for TPUSA told Blaze News that "the video evidence could not be clearer" that Boyles acted first, adding the "seemingly coordinated effort to uniformly denounce the conservative organization" in recent days demonstrates that TPUSA is a "thorn in the side of this established power."

The incident

Although some have demonstrated confusion over what happened, the incident was captured on video from two vantages.

Security footage shared by the ASU Police Department provides a bird's eye view, where D'Almeida and Boyles can be seen walking between two rows of trees with the cameraman keeping pace in front of them.

At the 19-second mark, Boyles, the man dressed in white, can be seen charging the cameraman. He throws out a straight arm, ostensibly reaching for the camera and making contact with the cameraman's person. At the 21-second mark, D'Almedia begins sprinting toward the tangle of flesh, pushing Boyles away from his compatriot.

The momentum the instructor had from his initial charge coupled with the shove carries him to the ground. Boyles quickly regains his footing then appears to speak to both men and a passerby.

Overhead Surveillance Footage | 10.11.23 Reported Assault | Fulton Parking Structureyoutu.be

Footage uploaded to X by TPUSA shows the lead-up to the incident, terminating at the moment of contact between Boyles and the camera.

The video opens with D'Almeida's asking the instructor, "Hey there, David. How you doing?"

Boyles responds, "Oh hey, how you doing?"

Upon spotting the cameraman, the instructor turns sullen, indicating he will not answer the reporter's questions — of which there were many.

"So let me ask you: When did you decide to get obsessed with sex education?" asks D'Almeida.

Again, Boyles indicates he will not answer any questions.

After posing several more questions, which similarly go unanswered, D'Almeida asks, "Why do you feel like children need to be exposed to drag? Why is that something that children should be exposed to?"

Boyles is the co-founder of Drag Story Hour Arizona, which "aims to support diversity and inclusivity in early literacy."

Finally, following D'Almeida's insinuation that the instructor might prefer a country where pederasty was fully permissible, Boyles rushes the camera.

\ud83d\udea8ASU Professor assaults TPUSA cameraman, caught on video \ud83d\udea8\n\nOur TPUSA Frontlines reporter tried to ask self-professed \u201csex education obsessed\u201d queer ASU Professor David Boyles, a few simple questions. Refusing to answer, our cameras caught the exact moment Mr. Boyles assaulted,\u2026
— Turning Point USA (@Turning Point USA) 1697172535

ASU's preferred narrative

Boyles alleged in a Meta post, "I had just finished teaching my LGBTQ+ Youth in Pop Culture and Politics class and was leaving my classroom when I was confronted by two right-wing fascists doing 'citizen journalist' cosplay. One filmed on his phone while the other shouted horrible and incendiary things at me, repeating standard right wing nonsense about Drag Story Hour and also accusing me personally of pedophilia and hating America."

The first-year writing instructor further claimed that "[k]nowing that they were filming in order to post this online and inspire even more harassment against me, I moved to block the camera. When I did so, the other one jumped me from behind, slamming me to the pavement and causing the injuries you see above."

Boyles noted that his physical injuries were minor but that he was "also feeling angry, violated, embarrassed, and despairing at the fact that we have come to normalize this kind of harassment and violence against anyone who tries to support LGBTQ+ youth."

The instructor concluded his post by calling the TPUSA crew "f***ing terrorists" and demanding that politicians similarly critical of the LGBT agenda should be cut off and "shunned from society."

ASU president Michael Crow rushed to join Boyles in displacing blame and denouncing TPUSA after the instructor indicated he wasn't holding his breath for a response from the university because its leaders had "made the university a safe space for bigots of all kinds, partly in pursuit of donations from right-wing billionaires and partly because they are just cowards," reported the Arizona Republic.

Crow stated on Oct. 14, "It is astounding to me that individuals from Turning Point USA would wait for an ASU instructor to come out of his class to follow him, harass him and ultimately shove him to the ground, bloodying his face," further calling it "stunning for Turning Point USA leadership to endorse, defend and fund such activity in the name of 'freedom.'"

In his statement, Crow entirely neglected to mention that Boyles had turned the engagement physical. Rather, he seized upon the opportunity to characterize TPUSA as a threatening presence on campus and call the "Frontlines" crew "[c]owards."

This interpretation prevailed in failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Arizona Board of Regents Chair Fred DuVal's statement, obtained by KPNX-TV, in which he claimed, "Turning Point USA should be ashamed for its targeted intimidation campaign against university professors, an effort that culminated this week with an ASU instructor – simply walking to his car after class – being shoved to the ground by a pair of Turning Point operatives. This organization needs to stop putting people at risk."

It appears campus law enforcement might also favor Crow's sense of what happened.

ASU Police spokesman Adam Wolfe told the Arizona Republic the ASUPD investigation would probe whether "bias or prejudice" was a factor.

"Obviously, we know part of their motive," said Wolfe. "We want to try to figure out if that's the whole motive... why did they feel so brazen to come onto campus and confront this professor?"

Wolfe suggested if Boyles was targeted because of his sexuality, aggravated assault charges are on the table as "bias is the aggravating factor."

TPUSA responds

Charlie Kirk, the president and CEO of TPUSA, noted on X that the video evidence was "clear as day," stating, "Professor Boyles attacked our crew first, and our reporter, Kalen D'Almeida, pushed him off to protect his cameraman. Violence is never okay and just because Professor Boyles happens to be gay (or whatever) doesn't give him the right to attack people because he doesn't like the questions they're asking."

TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told Blaze News, "Self defense is not a hate crime. ... And just because professor Boyle happens to be a gay man or part of the LGBTQ community does not give him license to damage our property, to attack our cameraman, and to turn something into a physical altercation, which otherwise wasn't one. It's very, very simple. I think the video evidence is completely crystal clear."

Kolvet further suggested that Crow's misrepresentation of the video evidence speaks to his broader antipathy for TPUSA.

TPUSA was, after all, partly responsible for Republican lawmakers starting to pay closer attention to the state of free speech at ASU. Ann Atkinson, the executive director of the now defunct T.W. Lewis Center for Personal Development, was castigated for hosting TPUSA's Kirk in February. Akinson, who later detailed the ordeal in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, indicated that faculty had also attempted to dissuade students from attending the event.

"[Crow] was silent on the Hamas sympathizers protesting at ASU after Hamas butchered 1,300 Israelis and killed 30 Americans. He was silent on that," continued Kolvet. "Yet, his professor attacks our cameraman and he gets up on the weekend and decides to pen an official letter from the office of the president. It's very telling where his priorities are. It's very telling who he thinks deserves special animus, special attention from his office. And it's shameful."

Kolvet indicated that the cameraman, who along with the reporter allegedly asked Boyles if he needed any assistance after his tumble, has filed a police report with ASUPD. In terms of filing charges, TPUSA is consulting with counsel and "strongly considering it."

As for why TPUSA sought to ask Boyles questions, the spokesman noted, "He's written extensively about minors and their first sexual experiences. He writes about his animus towards Christian conservatives and what he calls hetero-normative oppression. And he's obsessed with underground queer sex ed. ... He's written about it from an academic perspective and he's taxpayer funded. ... He's been completely defended and shielded by this university."

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What the GUARDED January 6 footage REALLY holds, according to a journalist with access to the tapes



Steve Baker is a lifelong musician and music industry professional, but he’s known for something far different now.

What started as a fun pastime writing about politics turned into something much bigger.

Baker is now a full-blown investigative journalist, and he’s found himself in a bit of hot water after his coverage of the January 6 protest — which he believes goes much deeper than the mainstream media is telling us.

His footage has been used in several January 6 documentaries, including ones made by the New York Times and HBO, as well as news agencies all over the world.

“Fast-forward two and a half years, and I just got a grand jury subpoena for it,” Baker tells James Poulos. “According to what the FBI told me and my lawyer back 21 months ago, they told me that I was going to be prosecuted for interstate racketeering.”

As no other journalists or peaceful protesters that Baker is aware of have been threatened with the same charge, Baker says “the only thing that we’ve been able to surmise is that they want to charge me with, I guess, the preconceived notion that I knew something was going to happen of an illegal nature, and therefore I traveled across state lines to get to D.C.”

Despite the accusations, Baker is one of only five journalists who have been granted access to over 41,000 hours of footage from the protest.

He notes that he became suspicious of what was really going on during one of the trials last year.

“There was a moment where I felt like that I saw something untoward or something suspicious happening between the lead prosecuting attorney, his name is Jeffrey Nestler, an assistant U.S. attorney, and Judge Amit Mehta, who was sitting on the bench in this particular trial.”

According to Baker, his “antennas went up” when he saw what he believed to be “suppression of evidence” and “collusion.”

That’s when he began digging.

“I backdoored my way into the Capitol to see these videos” as well as “into seeing some of this evidence that was under court seal,” he tells Poulos.

He was able to verify that what he saw in court was in fact a suppression of evidence “that would quite likely be exculpatory evidence for these defendants.”

However, that’s not all Baker has found.

“What we have discovered is not only suppression of evidence, but also the creation out of thin air of evidence that did not exist for the purpose of convicting,” Baker tells Poulos, adding that “there are people who have been scapegoated who have become the patsies, who have become the anointed leaders of the insurrection.”

Those “anointers leaders” were in fact “not at all” and “have been falsely accused.”

While Baker cannot currently release the names of these scapegoats, he will soon be able to take a few Blaze reporters with him into the video room, where he says he will finally be able to “get this off my chest.”


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Tucker Carlson says Jan. 6 footage 'demolishes' claims of insurrection



On Monday night's episode of his show on the Fox News Channel, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson aired some of the surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has granted Carlson access to the video. Carlson noted during his show on Monday that producers had enjoyed "unfettered access" to the surveillance footage.

While media outlets, Democrats, and some Republicans have described the events of Jan. 6 as an "insurrection," Carlson asserted that the footage "demolishes that claim."

Some of the footage shows police officers near Jacob Chansley, widely referred to as the "QAnon Shaman," whose image has become ubiquitous in the wake of the Jan. 6 episode. Chansley was arrested on January 9, 2021, according to the Justice Department.

Carlson also aired footage showing Officer Brian Sicknick walking in the Capitol, and Carlson claimed that the January 6 Committee had been aware that the man had been "walking normally ... after he was supposedly murdered by Trump supporters."

\u201cNew footage debunks the previously released Josh Hawley tape by the Jan. 6 Committee:\n\n"The surveillance footage we reviewed shows that famous clip was a sham, edited deceptively by the January 6th Committee. The clip was propaganda, not evidence. The actual videotape."\u201d
— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1678155579

On the heels of the Jan. 6 episode, the House voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump. The Senate did not vote on the matter until Trump had already departed from office, but when it did vote, Trump was acquitted when the number of senators who voted to convict fell below the threshold necessary for a conviction.

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Security footage from inside Florida condo captures moments just before collapse as debris rains and building groans



A resident of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, shared video footage from inside her condominium just moments before a portion of the building collapsed.

At the time of this reporting, at least four people are dead as a result of the horrific accident, and officials worry that 159 missing people — who were believed to be inside the building at the time of its collapse — are dead.

What are the details?

Rosie Santana, owner of a condominium in the Surfside-area complex, shared video footage of the moments leading up to the building crumbling 12 stories to the ground below.

Santana, who was not in the apartment at the time of its collapse, shared the black and white home security footage to her Twitter feed and captioned it, "I am a resident of one of the condos on the side of the collapse. This is a video from my camera footage inside from the start of the collapse until the lose [sic] of connection (I was away from the building today). Towards the end, you hear the structure failing."

In the video, debris can be seen raining down outside of what appears to be her living room. Ominous shaking and rumbling can soon be heard, and a television box, which is leaning up against a wall in the room, slips as the debris showers even heavier down around the room.

Before the 12-second video cuts, a deep groaning emits from the building just before it crumbles to the ground 12 stories below.

@AgendaFreeTV I am a resident of one of the condos on the side of the collapse. This is a video from my camera foot… https://t.co/Q817oAggWs

— rosie✨ (@_rosiesantana) 1624521394.0

What else?

According to a Thursday report from the New York Post, the Champlain Towers South building had reportedly been sinking at a rate of 2 millimeters per year since at least the 1990s.

The building was also undergoing a structural inspection at the time of its deadly collapse.

The information was divulged in a 2020 study conducted by Shimon Wdowinski, a professor at Florida International University.

"Wdowinski's research focused on which parts of Miami were sinking in an effort to determine what areas could be most impacted by sea-level rise and coastal flooding," the Post reported. "His team found that the Champlain Towers South in Surfside had been sinking at a rate of about 2 millimeters a year in the 1990s, the report said."

Wdowinski told USA Today on Thursday, "We saw this building had some kind of unusual movement," but pointed out that researchers didn't place too much emphasis on the finding, considering the study was focusing on flooding hazards and not engineering concerns.

He added that he did not believe anyone in the city or state government was aware of the study, its findings, or one-line mention of the building in the 2020 study.

"Surfside town officials on Thursday said the high-rise had been undergoing a county-mandated 40-year recertification process, which involves electrical and structural inspections," the Post added.

Video reportedly shows suspect abducting 4-year-old Cash Gernon from his bed, then returning for twin brother hours after murdering boy



Darriynn Brown — the 18-year-old suspect accused of brutally murdering a 4-year-old Dallas, Texas, boy — reportedly came back to the family home for the boy's twin brother just hours after kidnapping the child and committing the heinous killing.

Surveillance video captured the moment that the suspect entered the boys' bedroom and abducted 4-year-old Cash Gernon.

Authorities arrested Brown on Saturday after the child's body was discovered on a residential street in the early hours of the morning.

Brown's bond is set at $1.5 million.

What are the details?

According to a Wednesday report from the Daily Mail, surveillance footage showed the moment that Brown grabbed 4-year-old Cash and ran.

"In night vision footage, Brown creeps in dressed in a hoodie, backpack, sweatpants, and sneakers, and hovers menacingly over the two boys," the outlet reported. "He appears to hesitate for a few seconds, staring at the brothers and looking around the room, before finally reaching toward the bed and carefully pulling back the boys' blanket."

At that point, the suspect can be seen snatching Cash — who appears to awaken immediately — and running out of the room with the little boy in his arms.

Just hours later, Brown reportedly returned to the boys' bedroom for 4-year-old Carter.

The outlet said that Brown in surveillance footage can be seen "hovering menacingly over Carter Gernon as he slept in the cot he shared with his brother Cash."

Brown, however, "appears to get spooked by a sound in the house and flees, leaving Carter asleep."

"Brown, 18, reaches down and touches the boy as he stirs in his toddler bed, before wandering around the room, seemingly disturbed by a sound, and fleeing the room, leaving the boy sleeping peacefully," the outlet noted.

This is the disturbing moment four-year old #CashGernon was taken from his bed early Saturday morning by… https://t.co/6yPpob8ShG

— The Daily Sneed ™ ➐ (@Tr00peRR) 1621388055.0

'Truly traumatizing'

A jogger — later identified by the Daily Mail as 39-year-old Antwainese Square — said that she discovered Cash's lifeless body in the middle of a street, initially believing it to be that of a dog.

"That image that I saw, I just can't erase it," Square, an educator, recalled. "To see a child covered in blood in the middle of the street, it's truly traumatizing."

Cash, she said, was not wearing a shirt or shoes.

Square added that when she got closer, she realized it was a child and began screaming. She called 911, she said, and added that dispatchers requested she check the boy for any signs of life.

"They asked me to walk right up to the body in case the little boy was still alive," Square recalled. "And if he was, for me to try to save his life. I saw ants crawling all over his bare feet and he had blood over his face. He had no shoes, no socks, no shirt, none of that."

"He was only wearing a pair of bottoms, shorts," she added. "I just keep remembering those ants at the bottom of that baby's feet. He was on his back in the roadway. I remember one arm and one leg out. And the reason why I remember the arm and leg is because when I was walking up from afar, that was the determination of me knowing, 'OK this is a human. This is not a dog, this is a human being.'"

Square said that she remained with Cash's lifeless body until first responders arrived.

"[T]here was no way in the world I was going to leave that baby on his own," she said. "Whether he was dead or alive, I just wasn't going to leave him. My fear was somebody was going to accidentally run over him."

This 4y/o boy was found murdered on Saturday am on Saddlerige drive in the Mountain Creek Area in Dallas.Mom iden… https://t.co/rv9n3BybRr

— Malini Basu (@MaliniBasu_) 1621212902.0

Living with their biological father's estranged girlfriend

The boys were said to be living with Monica Sherrod, the girlfriend of their biological father, who the outlet reported "vanished" in March.

Sherrod said that Brown was "known to the family as the brother of her older son's friend," but the motive behind the shocking murder remains unknown at the time of this reporting.

Sherrod added that the suspect was able to gain entry to the home through an unlocked garage door.

"[F]ootage shows [Brown] returning at 7 a.m.," she told the outlet. "It seemed he was spooked by someone. It chills me to think that he could have been coming back for Carter."

Sherrod said that she didn't even realize the child was gone until later that morning when Cash failed to wake her up as he always did.

"We were all asleep when it happened," Sherrod said. "Cash usually wakes me up, but he didn't wake me [that day]. When I got up, I noticed he was gone. I called 911. I didn't even know somebody had taken him. I thought he might have gone outside. That was until I watched my surveillance camera, which showed someone taking him out."

Where are the mom and dad?

According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, Cash's biological mother and grandmother had been looking for for the children, and believed the boys were with their father.

The outlet reported that the family did not realize that their father left them with Sherrod and disappeared.

Authorities still do not know the father's whereabouts at the time of this reporting.

Carter has since been reunited with his mother.